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I recently purchased a "Solderless Upgrade" for my Sony NC600 DVD player. It has been working great until I bought a disk with RCE (region code enhancement).

I emailed the company I bought the hack from and they have said that I can only overcome RCE if I have the latest version of firmware on my player. They issued a full refund to me and recommended that i put my money towards "A cheap remote hackable" player say around £60 or £70.

Can anyone suggest some options for me as to what player to go for??

Cheers

Ask your local Argos if they have the Alba DVD114 in stock - it`s a fine player, costs only £70, and is multi-region (and RCE compatible!) out of the box.

Mike

they gave you a refund simply because it didnt play rce ?

didnt they tell you that rce didnt play when you sent the player for upgrade ?

sounds a bit strange ?

They said that they had made a mistake on their website, and it should have said that it would only overcome RCE if I had the very latest version of firmware on my machine. they then refunded the full MOD cost....

That was very nice for the company concerned. it`s my experience that most NC600 weren`t RCE compatible, regardless of the firmware version. There would have been 2 options to rectify this:-

1) provide another chip for RCE switching
2) provide a firmware replacement

Most decent mod companies should have been able to offer one or the other. Who was it as a matter of interest?

I guess from the term "Solderless Upgrade" it was dvd[no censorship}chips.co.uk

Yes it was dvdch1ps .co.uk

Where could I get a Firmware upgrade from??? Would it be worth trying cause I really like my player and dont really want to have to change it??

Cheers lads

Ped

This item was edited on Wednesday, 6th November 2002, 17:33

you will have to do some very tricky desoldering and soldering to change the firmware and I wouldnt bother with the rce add on chip , that`s okay for a cheap fix for a cheap player but not for yours , you want something better than that.

You were correctly advised to buy a cheap player like the £65 superdrug one as the mod you require will be expensive.

If you really want rce on your player then you need a full mod available from www.techtronics.com